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Attendees:
Melissa Wertheimer (Chair)
Kiera Sullivan (Secretary)
Rosemary Grant (Marketing and Communications Manager)
Amanda Greenwood (Student Member)
Absent:
Susan Paterson (Vice-Chair) was unable to attend, but sent her updates before the meeting via email.
Ryder Kouba (Education Coordinator)
Agenda items:
Spring Coffee Chat Update
Date: March 29, 2022 at 2pm EASTERN
Panel: Web Archiving in the Federal Government moderated by Melissa
Lauren Baker and Meghan Lyon, Library of Congress; Dory Baker, Government Printing Office; Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig, Smithsonian Institution Archives; Christie Moffatt, National Library of Medicine at the National Institute of Health
ACTION: Susan to confirm if she can host on her zoom account. Make sure that the meeting is created with a registration link.
Amanda agreed to be the backup zoom account.
Melissa asked Rosie when it would be appropriate to start advertising the event. Is it effective to do “stay tuned” posts on Twitter? Rosie suggested waiting until the registration link is available.
Rosie will be out of the country for a week starting Thursday.
ACTION: Melissa will do the first announcement for the coffee chat.
Rosie asked for the registration link soon and suggested a micro-blog post about it. Melissa also suggested a summary blog post afterwards. Melissa will reach out to Susan for confirmation about the Zoom account and also getting the registration link.
Joint Section Meeting Update (Melissa)
Melissa reached out to the two joint chairs of the SAA Performing Arts Section: Cecily and Katalin. Excited to work together on a joint section meeting.
Blog update (Rosie)
Ed’s post is on the horizon. Their launch was pushed back a bit but it should be in March.
Amanda’s post had a lot of engagement/retweets/quoting from it.
Melissa’s job’s blog will have a post up tomorrow about performing arts web archiving. She will send it to Rosie.
SAA Meeting on the Strategic Plan (Susan)
Susan’s emailed updates:
The presenters (Courtnney Chartier, Jackie Price Osafo, others) stressed that it was important to focus on the what and not the how during the conversation.
There were 32 participants in my session. I brought up the lack of digital content and the response was that they've heard this in other sessions. I mentioned it would be great to see web archiving in the document.
Quite a bit of discussion about the media training bullet point. This training is for the executive council when they meet with the media.
Recruiting diverse membership needs to have an "owner" It's important there is strong leadership.
Goal no. 2 needs to include more action items, sounds very passive.
Committees were volunteering to help with various items in the plan. WAS might want to consider getting involved?? (this is my point)
No budget built for the strat plan yet. Planning will take place in fiscal 2023.
Melissa thanked Susan for representing our section. She would like to discuss further as a group and with Susan present to elaborate on how web archiving can be included more in the document, what is an appropriate area for us to take on, and what does getting involved look like. She would like to find out from Susan if there were any suggestions on what areas need help? Examples of how we could help out? Melissa encouraged involvement but first finding out more before committing; to be mindful of individual bandwidth.
Coffee chats - Tom Smyth and Ian Milligan (Susan)
Susan’s emailed updates:
Tom has agreed to participate in a coffee chat. I sent an email earlier to the group regarding topics.
Please let me know if this is of interest to the group and what dates would work and I can get back to Tom with further details.
Ian Milligan also got back to me and he would be happy to participate in a coffee chat (April or June) and he could also have someone on his team write a blog post potentially.
If you could let me know how we'd like to proceed, I can let him know.
See addendum at end of minutes - further discussion conducted over email 2/23/2022
The group agreed that Tom Smyth’s topic suggestions sound great for a coffee chat. Melissa noted that staffing and curation is an excellent topic. She suggested scheduling this coffee chat for the end of April/beginning of May. The group agreed
ACTION: Susan to see if Tom would be available at the end of April/beginning of May. Melissa suggests scheduling it based on Tom’s availability and we will work around it. If he indicates that he is wide open and wants Susan to suggest something, the group proposes Thursday/Friday evenings (EASTERN) or a Tuesday at any time.
Melissa suggested that Ian Milligan might be a great blog contributor. He didn’t provide any real information about what a topic would be. A little wishy washy, so we can keep him in mind for a coffee chat or blog post but not try to schedule something at this time.
Melissa wondered if once a month or more frequently is preferable for coffee chats. Amanda thinks every couple of months would be ok, since there are so many coffee chats on offer across all of the SAA sections. Rosie asked if there was a calendar for all of these coffee chats and other events, and if there is a certain time of year that is better/not as good for scheduling coffee chats. Melissa observed that the summer is consumed with preparing for the Annual Meeting, so it is not as busy for things like coffee chats. Fall and Spring seem to be good times to do coffee chats.
Rosie asked if we usually do a zoom meeting or webinar? Melissa and Kiera confirmed that it is a regular zoom meeting.
Kiera raised the idea of recording the event for those who can not attend.
ACTION: Melissa will reach out to the panelists via email and see if everyone is ok with it being recorded.
Melissa questioned where the recording would live and if we would be able to upload it to the microsite or perhaps Youtube. Amanda said she wouldn’t mind sharing it from her Dropbox account. The group decided that we would prioritize a summary on the blog and then link the video. Melissa suggested that we make it clear that the video link will only be accessible for a certain amount of time so that Amanda won’t have to host it forever.
DECISION: The first blog post of April will be the summary with the link. The video will be linked from the blog post for 2 weeks from blog post publication date.
New Business
No new business.
Meeting adjourned at 4:46pm PACIFIC / 7:46pm EASTERN.
ADDENDUM - Ian Milligan Coffee Chat
From 2/23/2022 WAS Steering Committee emails:
Ian Milligan’s topic will be the merger with Archive-it to discuss how they're making it easier for researchers to analyze web archives
Possible ACTION item: Susan to see of Ian would be available for a June coffee chat
Summary of action items:
Coffee Chat on March 29th -
Susan to confirm if she can host on her zoom account. Make sure that the meeting is created with a registration link.
Melissa will do the first announcement for the coffee chat.
Melissa will reach out to the panelists via email and see if everyone is ok with it being recorded.
Coffee Chat with Tom Smyth -
Susan to see if Tom would be available at the end of April/beginning of May. Melissa suggests scheduling it based on Tom’s availability and we will work around it. If he indicates that he is wide open and wants Susan to suggest something, the group proposes Thursday/Friday evenings (EASTERN) or a Tuesday at any time.
Coffee Chat with Ian Milligan
Susan to see of Ian would be available for a June coffee chat
